Spyro Reignited Trilogy, the brilliant remake of the PS1 platformers, has just passed the 10 million sales milestone. Activision has reported the game has now sold through this figure across all platforms, of course including PS4.
The news comes just before the series as a whole celebrates its 25th anniversary. The original Spyro the Dragon first released in North America on 9th September, 1998, meaning the little purple flamethrower turns 25 in just a few days' time.
"Originally developed by Insomniac and published by Sony, the beloved platformer first debuted in September 1998 on PlayStation to critical acclaim," Activision recalls in a statement. "Fans quickly adopted the purple dragon as a new mascot worthy of Crash Bandicoot’s status, and a video game icon was born."
The press release ends with links to Spyro social accounts in order to "keep up" with 25th anniversary celebrations. It'll be nice to see the character get some time in the spotlight. Of course, fans have been hoping for a brand new game in the same vein as Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, and with the remake trilogy selling very well, we wouldn't be surprised to see it happen sooner or later. Unfortunately there's no evidence suggesting it's happening, but we can hope.
What do you think of Spyro as he approaches his 25th birthday? Crack open some dragon statues in the comments section below.
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Was one of the first games I ever played on a PS1. One of my favourite games of all time. Collecting all the gems, finding all the dragons and kicking Gnasty Gnorc at the end.
I really hope we get another Spyro one day.
25 years, wow. I hope a new game is coming as I loved the trilogy when they came around.
It's amazing to me how Spyro started off as equal to Crash in status, right through the PS2 generation and even into their reboots where they both faded from obscurity (Crash went first there somehow with only 2 games to Spyro's three).
And then the remakes started with Crash, the safer bet, then Spyro, both back on equal treatment as it used to be and then....Spyro became a Crash Bandicoot character.
And here we are. He's gonna be added to Crash Team Rumble at some point, because of course he is, and that'll be about it.
Cool.im more of a crash bandicoot fan.but spyro is ok.more spyro games are welcome.word up son
I miss spyro 😢 I would like another game and all the money made off of this trilogy should be incentive but it's probably not
Proudly contributed to this figures. Loved the PS1 games back in the day, finished 1 and 2 many times. The 3rd I could not, as I lost the disc, but I finally saw all of it in this collection. A 4th game in that style is a must!!
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New Spyro game for PS5 with 60 fps, please.
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I still have the copies of the original trilogy from when I was a kid and I still fire up the Reignited Trilogy on PC once in a while.
10m sales for the remastered trilogy alone? that is just bonkers! i would never have expected the remaster to sell so well... i've been holding off getting it since it suffers from frame pacing issues, but looks like that is never getting fixed heh.
I'd be curious to see the sales distribution on this. Games tend to sell considerably better on PlayStation, but I'd imagine PlayStation-centric games like these would widen the difference.
All that success and Activision still won't greenlight a 60fps patch for a single game of theirs. Not even for CTR Nitro-fueled, which would benefit from that greatly being a racing game. Not to mention it's the only true Mario Kart rival.
@xDD90x yea, their post release support has been atrocious. sounds like the teams are never going back to patch the problems out of ctr and spyro.
Wish they would put it out for ps5 as well. Get all those trophies a second time!
I would absolutely love a new Spyro game…Platformers are criminally underestimated by publishers…Only Ratchet has been represented this console generation and it seems Insomniac is to busy with the Marvel cashdollars to be even thinking about making a new game. Honestly how long are we going to have to wait till we see a new Sly Cooper/Jak&Daxter/Spyro/Rayman for PS5? My only realistic hope is for an Astrobot game.
P.S. I did forget to mention the Sackboy and Sonic this gen games which were both brilliant…but you get my point huh?
Awesome, now give us a new main Spyro game you cowards!
@Pedski I could see insomniac making another ratchet and clank game once they get Both Spider man 2 and Wolverine out of the way.
Party like it's 2024.
With no Pitfall, we need a Spyro, a platformer Activision. I just hope not a Spyro multiplayer game like Crash did (Rumble is fine but it's Rayman Arena/others, it works but yeah don't want to see two characters/IPs do similar I think they need to be different games with different goals).
Please make it a Spyro 'new' 4 or a something different that isn't multiplayer make them different series with different purposes.
Will see what happens but glad it did reach 10 million.
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